Re: [La Isla] Mexconnect on FB or Twitter?

There are many reasons. First, as you suggest, to help draw more visitors to MexConnect. Second, because some people prefer to read stuff on FB rather than on other websites. Third, because it offers additional exposure to our loyal advertisers. Fourth, because it's there...!

Re: [tonyburton] Mexconnect on FB or Twitter?

Will people who prefer Facebook start posting comments and questions there instead of participating in our lively, sometimes cantankerous but usually amusing, conversations here? Wouldn't that divide our online community instead of making it bigger?

Re: [DavidMcL] Mexconnect on FB or Twitter?

Re: [La Isla] Mexconnect on FB or Twitter?

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I think it will ultimately help draw people to the actual Mexconnect site, especially using the strategy as described by David. There are a lot of younger folks who normally don't peruse discussion boards like these. Hate to say it, but discussion boards and e-mail are sooo 20th century.

But younger generations are very information-driven and will go to wherever they can find answers to the questions they have. So things like Google and Twitter and Facebook act as channels to call attention to the fantastic resources here on Mexconnect. It's a great way to reach a whole new group of people.

Personally, my hat's off to David and his team. They are doing a great job with this site.

Re: [ken_in_dfw] Mexconnect on FB or Twitter?

I think it will ultimately help draw people to the actual Mexconnect site, especially using the strategy as described by David. There are a lot of younger folks who normally don't peruse discussion boards like these. Hate to say it, but discussion boards and e-mail are sooo 20th century.

You know, Ken, I find expressions like "x, y and/or z are soooo 20th century" incredibly irritating. Maybe because I enjoy living in the past : ) !

Re: [ken_in_dfw] Mexconnect on FB or Twitter?

Yes, FB is, with few exceptions, a different demographic completely to the main MexConnect forum users (though note that the main sections of our site are widely used by students). David will be announcing more about FB and Twitter etc. (that forces his hand), probably next week, after we've met with MexConnect's amazing technical support team in Vancouver this Friday.

Re: [La Isla] Mexconnect on FB or Twitter?

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Sorry for the irritation, La Isla. There are a great many things of the past that I prefer, too. Obviously, since I spend time on discussion boards and send tons of e-mail. But I have never been able to invent that temporal stasis machine that can enable me to freeze time, much less travel back through it. So I continue to muddle forward, enjoying what I can of the scenery as I go.

Re: [ken_in_dfw] Mexconnect on FB or Twitter?

Ken, it wasn't so much the idea that we need to live in the present if we want to, as you put it, "muddle forward" that I object to, it's more the tone of the over-used phrase, "it's so 20th century". To me it sounds condescending and reflects a rejection of all that has happened in the past, the good along with the bad.

Re: [La Isla] Mexconnect on FB or Twitter?

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Point taken and please accept my apology for sounding condescending. That wasn't my intention. It was a poor attempt at satire. I was trying to mimic my Millenial generation nephews and nieces who can barely stop to send me a text, much less linger over a phone call, or, shudder, an actual face-to-face conversation. :-)

Re: [ken_in_dfw] Mexconnect on FB or Twitter?

Being a language teacher and translator, I'm very sensitive to words and their connotations, hence my dislike for that phrase, which one of these days will be as obsolete as the typewriter. Not sure what how old the Millennials are, and I have no relatives I'm in touch with under the age of 40 or so, though I do have younger friends here in Mexico in their twenties and thirties. Lucky for me they don't mind sending me emails from time to time. We even sometimes meet in person and have long conversations! Sorry about your nephews . . .

Re: [La Isla] Mexconnect on FB or Twitter?

I agree. This saying seems to encapsulate everything WRONG with society today, the lack of respect for simplicity, history, education, experience, and the promotion of the concept of complicated, disposable, replaceable, wasteful living. JMHO of course!!!!

Re: [bfwpdx] Mexconnect on FB or Twitter?

I really don't give a flying fig what generations from the elder eldsters to the newest dummies out of the womb think, to be an honest curmudgeon. We all take the same journey from shiny new ignorance to the grave.

Right now, we have an enormous library at our fingertips.....and that is a good thing. Whether we use if for any productive purpose is another. I am not criticizing the usefulness of the net in general. This is only about the "Social Networking" aspect.

The average teenager used to be glued to the telephone, without which they couldn't confirm their own identity. Now the same teenager sends an average of 125 tweets a day. That's so 21st century. (grin) They are just as foolish in their real life choices as they were many decades ago. The human intelligence is about the same as it was in Socrates' day.........and probably back to the caves.

The one thing I DO care about is whether or not our fearless leader keeps his subscribers' names and information out of the clutches of the Hive. You are keeping this information confidential, aren't you? If not, please say so and I'm outta here like summer smoke.

Re: [Gringal] Mexconnect on FB or Twitter?

Rest assured, Gringal, MexConnect does not share its subscriber information with anyone, whether for commercial or non-commercial purposes (as has always been clearly expressed in our terms of service).